4 hours ago, Gorgoroth said:

Libba has entered concussion protocol. So if cited Brayshaw will miss the next few. 
Just going to depend on wether they think his “bump” connects. 
I must admit I’ve not seen a close up of the vision.

Freo will cite the incident as in play...but it was a bump and it could have been avoided.

I'm surprised the Dogs took so long to react. Libba doesn't stay down and it was obvious he was dazed.

 

The delicious irony of Freo being up last year and then down this year is that there’s a really great recent example of this happening to another club and resulting in a huge positive, and it’s the absolute last story they want to tell.

35 minutes ago, binman said:

Live, it looked really crude. He got sandwich and it was hard to see the head knock. Went down and incredibly no free.

He was dazed when he got up but was still asking about the free.

Assuming that was the incident, he stayed on for at least a few minutes longer. 

Head is sacrosanct and so If there is any consistency in the tribunal it’s a minimum 3 weeks. He looked to bump/brace last minute and Libba is now under protocols, which means 3 weeks given the 2 week non concussion bump precedents set earlier on in the season.

29 minutes ago, Gawndy the Great said:

Head is sacrosanct and so If there is any consistency in the tribunal it’s a minimum 3 weeks. He looked to bump/brace last minute and Libba is now under protocols, which means 3 weeks given the 2 week non concussion bump precedents set earlier on in the season.

OK, I think I've spotted the flaw in your reasoning.

1 hour ago, The heart beats true said:

The delicious irony of Freo being up last year and then down this year is that there’s a really great recent example of this happening to another club and resulting in a huge positive, and it’s the absolute last story they want to tell.

Not sure Freo's draft haul from finishing low on the ladder this year will quite match what the Demons accomplished after 2019.

9 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Guaranteed he's going to get boo'd...

It's all part of the theatre and you'll get nuffy supporters at every club who'll go out of their way to boo.

Jesse Hogan gave us much better service then Jacko and there were boos when he stepped foot on the MCG in 2019.

I boo bit totally in jest. It’s funny. I wouldn’t boo Horne Francis because that’s not funny but Jackson, I’ll boo him with tongue in cheek

Still really glad about Fremantle's loss last night.

44 minutes ago, layzie said:

Still really glad about Fremantle's loss last night.

Now imagine the Round 24: Hawthorn vs Fremantle MCG as the Spoonbowl, with an after the siren shot on goal by Lloyd Meek to give us Pick 1. We should all get together in our colours and flags and cheer the Hawks on for victory  🤮

Edited April 22, 20231 yr by John Demonic

4 minutes ago, John Demonic said:

Now imagine the Round 24: Hawthorn vs Fremantle MCG as the Spoonbowl, with an after the siren shot on goal by Lloyd Meek to give us Pick 1. We should all get together in our colours and flags and cheer the Hawks on 

Having an ex teammate sink them after the siren would make up for Farmer in 2002!

I’ll never boo a player as I am a grown adult, not an 8 year old. 
 

On Jacko, you can’t help but think the pressure to Perform will be stunting his development. I reckon he’d be flying with us this year.

 

Freo are a basket case.

6.40 onwards:

Lobb said in February that the coaching staff at Freo were pointing him in the wrong direction (not great to say publicly), but given the above clip and the fact they were only 18 points down when that happened, that they are desperate for a win, I’d love to know what the coaching staff told the players in the lead up, as they were clearly fixated on Lobb. 
 

(not saying the coaches told the players to go after Lobb)

Adelaide beating Hawthorn a plus I think (because Hawthorn were going to finish below Fremantle regardless). Having said that, Adelaide were probably going to finish above Fremantle regardless so maybe the result is unimportant...

Agree or disagree?

17 minutes ago, Sydney_Demon said:

Adelaide beating Hawthorn a plus I think (because Hawthorn were going to finish below Fremantle regardless). Having said that, Adelaide were probably going to finish above Fremantle regardless so maybe the result is unimportant...

Agree or disagree?

Adelaide will make the eight. The expansion sides will determine whether we get ND4, ND5, or ND6. WCE, Haw, NM are not going to be anywhere other than bottom 3 and Tigers won’t stay below Freo. Pretty good place to be. Chance for ND4 I reckon. GC will win games at home and Darwin and GWS will pull off upsets when their stars shine.

 

Peter you are viewing this thread…. 🤣🤣🤣

2 hours ago, BoBo said:

Freo are a basket case.

6.40 onwards:

Lobb said in February that the coaching staff at Freo were pointing him in the wrong direction (not great to say publicly), but given the above clip and the fact they were only 18 points down when that happened, that they are desperate for a win, I’d love to know what the coaching staff told the players in the lead up, as they were clearly fixated on Lobb. 
 

(not saying the coaches told the players to go after Lobb)

I couldn't be happier that those 6 Dockers players made the idiotic decision to rough Lobb up when the ball was in play. Embarrassment central.

37 minutes ago, McQueen said:

Peter you are viewing this thread…. 🤣🤣🤣

Just about to post that

4 minutes ago, Satan said:

Just about to post that

Me too

We'll be on the backpage of the New York Times next

Extra extra! Read all about it. 

 

I think that booking is ok when it is part of the theatre, the pantomime, of the game.

It can add to the atmosphere.

Traditionally it's been the "villains". The players who gave it back to the crowd as well, and seemed to thrive off the interaction. In that situation it is two way and is good for the game.

Players defecting to other clubs, particularly rival clubs, become pseudo villains for that match. A good boo from the crowd early in the game is balanced by it waning as the match goes on, plus the friendship between ex-teammates after the match. Again in this situation it is largely two way.

 

Recently booking seems to have become a bit more mob/pack driven. The booking of Goodes clearly got out of hand, it clearly wasn't two way. The Horne-Frqncis situation is frankly bizarre: being booked by clubs not involved makes no sense. And booing players who were cut/delisted/traded out (such as a Mitch Hannan or Weid) makes no sense either.

 

I'm not sure at what point the crowd lost understand of its role in the pantomime, but it is disappointing.

9 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Extra extra! Read all about it. 

 

Fierce debate over which draft prospect they like better @ pick 50

23 minutes ago, deanox said:

booing players who were cut/delisted/traded out (such as a Mitch Hannan or Weid) makes no sense either

Agree with most of your post here Deanox and particularly this last bit.

During the Dogs game first round this year, their supporters started booing Lauchie Hunter - to which I yelled back "You didn't want him you idiots" .  On cue, nuffy MFC supporters boo Sauce Baker when he got a possession soon after 🤦‍♂️.

I personally think players that leave for big money or to play at a more immediately successful club such as Tom $cully, Jerremy Howe, James Frawley etc deserve to be booed by supporters of their former clubs.  There's an old notion of disloyalty, greed, selfishness about that, which shouldn't go unrewarded and unrecognised.  However personally I'm a bit more neutral towards players that have given good service and/or just genuinely want to return to their home state like Jeff Farmer, Jessie Hogan, Scott Thomson and Jacko.

41 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Extra extra! Read all about it. 

 

Looks like a reboot of Upper Middle Bogan.